Paul de Foix

Paul de Foix (1528-1584) was a French prelate and diplomat.

Biography
Paul de Foix studied Greek and Roman literature at Paris and jurisprudence at Toulouse, and he became a councillor of the Parlement of Paris at the age of 19. He was arrested on suspicion of harboring Huguenot sympathies, but he escaped punishment and regained the favor of the court. At the end of 1561, he was sent as ambassador to England, where he remained for four years. He was then sent to Venice, but he returned to England to arrange a marriage between Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Duke of Anjou. In 1577, he became Archbishop of Toulouse, and he served as ambassador to Rome from 1579 until his death in 1584.